You’ll only be able to use the site overlay for a profile that has a single, defined sub domain. The reason is that when the site overlay report is created, GA takes the website site URL, as defined in the profile settings, and adds it to the request URI. It then requests that URL from your site. So, if the website URL, or the request URI is not perfect, then GA will not be able to retrieve the page and overlay the data.

Hope that helps and thanks for buying the book and reading the blog!

Justin

I just bought and read your e-book, it’s a very good reading source to understand GA better. Thanks for your book.

I do have some questions about GA which I believe is not covered in your e-book.

In section “Tracking Across Multiple Subdomains” you mentioned in the warning box that the filter will break the site overlay report. So does this mean that we can’t have both the subdomains tracking and the site overlay feature?

Would you cover more about site overlay in the future?

Thanks

Eric

The two codes do not interact or interfere with each other in any way so something else must be breaking the AdWords conversion tracking. I would check the browser for JavaScript errors using the FireBug plugin for FireFox.

Thanks for buying the book! I appreciate it.

Justin

Thanks for your note. I’ll make sure that the folks at O’Reilly get your feedback.

Justin

1. No info on payment options.
2. Multiple pages and emails to register.

So I did not buy your book.

I’m reading your GA Short Cut pdf right now, and getting some needed clarification on things.

I understand how to connect an Adwords campaign with Analytics, and have done so. But in setting up the two – the Adwords campaign and the Analytics profile – they both required the insertion of a code snippet into the same page – an order confirmation page. Will these two code snippets interfere with each other? Here they are, as they appear in the page (they exist one right after the other):

_uacct = “UA-XXXXXXX-X”;
urchinTracker(“/G1/conversion.html”);

The urchinTracker variable renames this otherwise dynamically named page, per Google instructions. The reason for my question about the two code snippets interfering is that Analytics is tracking landings on this page, but the Adwords conversion tracking is not.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Yes, you can track keyword level data from other CPC services without creating additional ad groups. By default, if you do not tag a destination URL with the utm_term parameter, GA will pick up the keyword that the search engine passes to your website. Remember, this may or may not be the actual keyword that the visitor searched on. It depends on the the search engine. The key is that you still need to use the utm_campaign, utm_medium and utm_source parameters.

Hope that helps and thanks for the comment!

Justin